@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org
Post #2036040
2024-03-27 20:43 UTC
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@nasamuffin@jorts.horse 2024-03-27 22:00
@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org Please forgive an uninformed question, i don't know anything about academic publishing! But I thought the publish-to-journal step was also the peer review step? When does peer review happen for preprints?
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@obviousdwest@hachyderm.io 2024-03-28 00:00
@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org Better access, inclusion of data, more rapid iteration…are all good things. But we don’t want corporate/industrial efforts to overwhelm the system. What if the supplement or alkaline water industry used their financial might to mess with this? Humanity might suffer. In contrast, the current for-profit journals that were bought up by publishers aren’t doing great work.
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@AlanSill@mast.hpc.social 2024-03-28 04:09
@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org It’s the constant dilemma: - Subscription/pay to read = access to content is limited. - Open access to read through publication charges = access to publish is therefore limited. But somehow the infrastructure to publish, store, and maintain the information costs money and someone has to pay for it. Limit publication to those who can self-host? That also creates limitations and can be intrinsically unfair. As I said, a constant dilemma.
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@bleistifterin@fnordon.de 2024-03-28 09:53
@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org while academic publishing during capitalism is deeply broken, peer-reviews remain important. I doubt pre-prints are the solution. Even diamond open access is no way out if the logic of "publish or perish" remains
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@arjen@idf.social 2024-03-29 08:08
@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org interesting policy! I think the "instead" is not 100% correct; you must always publish a preprint, but I think you may publish in a journal too. However, they will no longer pay article processing costs (limiting the journal options indeed). I guess that if all works are available as pre-print and journals cannot charge APC, they will have less interest to publish these papers - so it may eventually raise a question of how to organize peer review.